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Re: Terminal question

#1960
From: Eric A. Litman
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 07:36
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Lusty Wench (lusty@lusty.tamu.edu) writes:

: I'd say there's a good reason *not* to go spreading around this type of
: information, since I can't think of a legitimate reason for wanting to
: do it.

Very sound reasoning indeed. A corollary would be to deny access to computing 
resources to all non-expert users altogether, thereby negating any need 
for instruction. Were he alive today, George Bush would be proud.

While this was not really the place for this question (comp.mail.misc is more
appropriate), the easiest solution would be to use a widely available utility 
such as the program 'fastmail' distributed with the latest elm release. More 
complicated examples include telnetting to the SMTP port of the desired host, 
running /usr/lib/sendmail -f as root (which would be complicated for the
original poster), or using perl and chat2.pl to create a bloated, feature-laden
hack. I myself have such a beast, appropriately dubbed 'amail', which I may be 
coaxed into sharing.

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